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SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
PATRON SAINT OF
Academics; against storms; against lightning; apologists; Aquino, Italy; Book sellers; Catholic academies, schools, and universities; chastity; Falerna, Italy; learning; pencil makers; philosophers; publishers; scholars; student
INTRODUCTION
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Divine grace aiding, made him the “Angelic Doctor”.
(2) The spirit of prayer, his great piety and devotion, drew down blessings on his studies. Explaining why he read, every day, portions of the “Conferences” of Cassian, he said: “In such reading I find devotion, whence I readily ascend to contemplation” (Prümmer, op. cit., p. 32). In the lessons of the Breviary read on his feast day it is explicitly stated that he never began to study without first invoking the assistance of God in prayer; and when he wrestled with obscure passages of the Scriptures, to prayer he added fasting.
CHAPTER ONE SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
St Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274)
